28, 30, 32 Keir Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2001. Tenement.

28, 30, 32 Keir Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
fallen-joist-shade
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2001
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 253 731
Coordinates
55.94535, -3.19722
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

28, 30, 32 Keir Street is a plain classical tenement block built around 1810, featuring three stories and a basement with seven bays. The building has channelled ashlar at the ground level, droved stone above, coursed rubble in the basement, and random rubble at the rear. There are dividing bands between the basement and ground floors, as well as between the ground and first floors, along with a cill course at the first floor and projecting cills at the second floor. The narrow eaves course adds to the architectural detail.

Stone steps and platts lead to the basement areas. The slightly recessed central bay, which is not channelled at the ground, contains a timber panelled door to the stair and two windows that light the stair above. The main doors to the flats are timber panelled with sunburst fanlights, located in the third bay from the left within a round-headed recessed surround and in the second bay from the right. The building is regularly fenestrated, with a round-headed recess for the window on the outer right at the ground level and blind windows above the door to No 26.

The windows feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are stone skews and corniced stacks with circular cans.

The boundary wall and railings consist of spear-headed cast-iron railings on a low ashlar boundary wall, leading to the steps and platts, with pine cone finials on the basement gates.

Local climate

28, 30, 32 Keir Street, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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